IE6 Rollout

Good Afternoon,

I had a question regarding a perspective IE6 Deployment. I am trying
to deploy IE6 to over 200 End Users at different sites. The problem I am
having is that I created a login script through Group Policy Management,
which primarily calls RUNAS /user: domain\admin etc, etc to do the
Adminsitrative install of ie6setup.exe. When I created the Batch it
executed, but upon reboot and attempted completion of IE6 install it tells
me that the user has no administrative rights and cannot continue. First of
all I find the enter password for RUNAS to be a hinderance and the whole
RUNAS Command concept to be a nightmare in that scenario. I would like to
just do a clean install, silently in the background with user rights not
interfering. We do not have SMS or any deployment software to use in this
case. I was thinking about the possiblity of temporary rights to users for a
short amount of time, maybe an OU or group rights idea. I remember reading
about it in group policy, but I forget exactly how to configure that
approach. I created a Build using the IE6 Admin Kit has been tested
satisfactory on a stand alone workstation. I would appreciate it if someone
could steer me in the right direction. Thanks for your time.


Regards,



David Leonardi

I have never seen an automated deployment of IE or Office xp go
successfully, although I have never seen it deployed using what I think is
an automated remote installer feature in windows 2000 / 2003 servers.

In my opinion, I would use IEAK (Internet Explorer Administration Kit - free
from microsoft) to create a simple distribution of internet explorer and set
up a temporary user with the ability to run the setup program, then tell
them what to do. You could even replace their shell with the distribution
exe. Create the distribution with as little setup steps as possible. I know
you can get office xp to install with only something like 3 clicks using the
office xp resource kit.

I very much doubt that you could get IE 6 to install without disturbing the
user because of the need to restart the computer. There was once a time when
all computers in the company were built with the same specs running win98
and one could simply ghost them all.


Ray Taylor
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"Dave Leonardi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:#(E-Mail Removed)...
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I had a question regarding a perspective IE6 Deployment. I am
trying
> to deploy IE6 to over 200 End Users at different sites. The problem I am
> having is that I created a login script through Group Policy Management,
> which primarily calls RUNAS /user: domain\admin etc, etc to do the
> Adminsitrative install of ie6setup.exe. When I created the Batch it
> executed, but upon reboot and attempted completion of IE6 install it tells
> me that the user has no administrative rights and cannot continue. First
of
> all I find the enter password for RUNAS to be a hinderance and the whole
> RUNAS Command concept to be a nightmare in that scenario. I would like to
> just do a clean install, silently in the background with user rights not
> interfering. We do not have SMS or any deployment software to use in this
> case. I was thinking about the possiblity of temporary rights to users for
a
> short amount of time, maybe an OU or group rights idea. I remember reading
> about it in group policy, but I forget exactly how to configure that
> approach. I created a Build using the IE6 Admin Kit has been tested
> satisfactory on a stand alone workstation. I would appreciate it if
someone
> could steer me in the right direction. Thanks for your time.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> David Leonardi
>
>
>

Ray,

I see this is going to be a pain in the you know what. I'm going to try
to find some packagers and see if I can make this a little more painless.
I'll let you know If I find an "easier way" of deploying IE6 without user
intervention. "Hey we can all wish can't we?".Thanks for the possible
scenarios it's really appreciated.



Regards,

Dave
Leonardi

"Ray Taylor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have never seen an automated deployment of IE or Office xp go
> successfully, although I have never seen it deployed using what I think is
> an automated remote installer feature in windows 2000 / 2003 servers.
>
> In my opinion, I would use IEAK (Internet Explorer Administration Kit -
free
> from microsoft) to create a simple distribution of internet explorer and
set
> up a temporary user with the ability to run the setup program, then tell
> them what to do. You could even replace their shell with the distribution
> exe. Create the distribution with as little setup steps as possible. I
know
> you can get office xp to install with only something like 3 clicks using
the
> office xp resource kit.
>
> I very much doubt that you could get IE 6 to install without disturbing
the
> user because of the need to restart the computer. There was once a time
when
> all computers in the company were built with the same specs running win98
> and one could simply ghost them all.
>
>
> Ray Taylor
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
>
> "Dave Leonardi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:#(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Good Afternoon,
> >
> > I had a question regarding a perspective IE6 Deployment. I am
> trying
> > to deploy IE6 to over 200 End Users at different sites. The problem I am
> > having is that I created a login script through Group Policy Management,
> > which primarily calls RUNAS /user: domain\admin etc, etc to do the
> > Adminsitrative install of ie6setup.exe. When I created the Batch it
> > executed, but upon reboot and attempted completion of IE6 install it
tells
> > me that the user has no administrative rights and cannot continue. First
> of
> > all I find the enter password for RUNAS to be a hinderance and the whole
> > RUNAS Command concept to be a nightmare in that scenario. I would like
to
> > just do a clean install, silently in the background with user rights not
> > interfering. We do not have SMS or any deployment software to use in
this
> > case. I was thinking about the possiblity of temporary rights to users
for
> a
> > short amount of time, maybe an OU or group rights idea. I remember
reading
> > about it in group policy, but I forget exactly how to configure that
> > approach. I created a Build using the IE6 Admin Kit has been tested
> > satisfactory on a stand alone workstation. I would appreciate it if
> someone
> > could steer me in the right direction. Thanks for your time.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > David Leonardi
> >
> >
> >
>
>